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Well it's your lucky day. Named parameters are perl since 5.20 ... as an "experimental" feature ...

Now you can write.

use v5.20; use feature 'signatures';

sub print_text( $param1 , $language = "perl", $years = 10 ) { say "I would have loved this $language $param1 more then $years years ago"; }

print_text "feature"

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And I believe that with the next release, a simple

    use v5.36;

will enable the feature.

bmn__3y ago

This already was available more than ten years ago, you simply had to install a module.

I used to use perl5i for scripting, which had func().

Point is. As soon as I tell someone "you have to use tarball/cpan/cpanplus/cpanminus to install the feature "named parameters" they leave.

But now it's here

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